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The encyclopedia project [[Wikipedia]] is the most popular wiki on the public web in terms of page views,<ref>[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TopTenWikiEngines Top Ten Wiki Engines]</ref> but there are many sites running many different kinds of wiki software. Wikis can serve many different purposes both public and private, including knowledge management, notetaking, community websites and intranets. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access). For example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may also be imposed to organize content.
Some wikis, including All The Tropes Miraheze and All The Tropes Fandom/Wikia, are part of wiki farms -- variously-structured collectives of wiki owners that pool their resource (storage, bandwidth, and sometimes domaining) requirements to a single set of servers, whether or not the contents of the connected wikis are related to each other.
Wikis are usually topical in nature, and since their flourishing one can usually find one for almost any subject -- this is sometimes referred to as [[The Wiki Rule]].
== Origins ==
Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work"; he also consequently started the first wiki, and named the class of software it represented. "Wiki" (pronounced "witi" or "viti") is a [[Hawaii]]an word meaning "Quick". Ward's Wiki (also named C2Wiki after the website for his business Cunningham and Cunningham, hosted at the same domain) grew from the project Portland Pattern Repository, a catalogue of software 'patterns' (recipes and methods of development, a usage cribbed from a famous book on architecture).
Soon enough, a second wiki sprung from Ward's Wiki, called MeatballWiki; it was the first meta-wiki, having communities as the main subject, particularly online communities with a focus on wikis.
== Wiki Engines Used For Troping ==
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